I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 139
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
David J. Schwartz
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
Donnie Yen
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
J. William Fulbright
What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
William E. Rothschild
If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.
Shannon Leto
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
Billy Joel
Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.
Jack Welch
Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.
Brent Weeks
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
Illeana Douglas
I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
Tamara Ecclestone
Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
John Sununu
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Havelock Ellis
Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.
Beilby Porteus
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
Norm MacDonald
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.
Allen W. Wood
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot